Profiling the death due to covid-19 pandemic at tertiary care dedicated covid hospital in southern Rajasthan

Background: The entire world is struggling with a pandemic caused due to novel corona virus (Covid-19) and this pandemic is still not under control. The present study was aimed to know various demographic factors, clinical features, co-morbidities and complication of COVID-19 deaths as well to determine case fatality rate of our institute. Methodology: We analyzed, Demographic, clinical, co-morbidities, complication and case fatality rate of all 22 RT-PCR confirmed COVID-19 deaths that occurred at Dedicated COVID Hospital, a tertiary care centre, attached to RNT Medical college Udaipur Rajasthan, over a period of four month from 15th March 2020 to 22th July 2020.Result: We found that the maximum patients were from age group ≥ 60 years (68.2%) followed by 40 to 59 years (27.3%) and predominantly seen in male sex (77.3%). The major clinical feature was shortness of breath (100%), fever (86.4%) and cough (81.8%) The most common co-morbidities was diabetes (54.5 %) and hypertension (50%).The major cause of death was bilateral pneumonia with ARDS (100%), septicaemia (27.3%), and MODS (18.2%) and case fatality rate was 2.1%. Conclusion: At present case fatality rate of our institute was 2.10%. We recommend early active intervention and various newer modalities of treatment such as anti viral therapy, convalescent plasma therapy will be further reduced case fatality rate and hopefully we will be able to control and manage this present pandemic.